Not sure how many others are experiencing this, but I've got a new kind of spam that's breaking through: Calendar event cancellations.
Guessing the goal is to give you FOMO, but there's little I find more joyful than being told I DON'T need to attend a meeting.
Swing and a miss, boys.
I get it, software is getting egregiously worse and that's a serious problem SOMEBODY should do something about..
But when will we fight back against food manufacturers giving you a 15 piece box and instructions on how to cook only 12?
This is the government's fault somehow, I just know it.
First we had Harness Engineering. Now: Rage-Bait Engineering. It's only 3 easy steps:
1) Ask Claude to create a plan
2) I hate the plan Claude has created
3) I create my own plan out of spite
So far 100% effective at creating a great plan -and- at increasing my blood pressure. Double the success.
I'm not sure I'll ever venture into starting another business again, but if I ever do I've already decided:
I'm giving people snow/heat days. I miss snow days.
Short profile script horror story:
echo 'eval "..." > ~/.profile'
Hope you're doing well, my friend.
Haha, I've been here the whole time, just don't really feel like interacting most days.
Not at all new, so "Hello."
Like any good long-time developer, I'm always happy to jump on a JavaScript hate bandwagon.
That said, I do love how simple it is to create a browser extension that gets rid of the "Sign in with Google" pop-ups that plague the internet.
Maybe should make one for things like "Rewrite with AI" too..
Any time I see software bugs I now think to myself, "and that's what you get for coding with AI."
I feel like I am understanding bigotry on a deeper level.
The duality of programmers:
Bragging one week about pushing code that worked without testing, and then waking up in a cold sweat a week or two later with the realization you introduced a bug and seeing ~100 messages in the company dev chat.
#DevelopersDevelopersDevelopers #WeSuckAtSoftware
My computer: 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 128GB Ram, NVIDIA 4080, gigabit internet...
Adobe's Acrobat: "You want to what, read and audit a PDF? Oh boy, we're going to be here for a while to download/install this."
7 minutes to install this cancer, how embarrassing.
#WeSuckAtSoftware
Realizing I'll have accomplished driving on two separate continents on differing sides of the road today.
Not saying it's spectacular or anything, but it's a little interesting.
It's very important to pack efficiently for international business trips.
If you don't, how will you fit the D&D handbooks, dice, and extra character sheets for the team?
Do any other devs feel like pushing code you haven't tested and having it work the first time is the closest we get to walking away from an explosion without looking?
That would also mean the 80% of times that don't work are like walking away too late and getting thrown around.
When I teach programming/technology to people, I try to drill the mantra "it's all fake, break something to learn something" into them.
Semi-related, if anyone heard me grumbling "BrEaK sOmEThInG to LeArN SomEtHiNg" yesterday, I may have misread an API doc and deleted an entire set of DNS records.
Lukewarm take of the weekend...
Emojis were a lot more interesting when they were ASCII(ish)-only.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It feels like 30th St. Station covering up the electric outlets to force you to pay for a charger is a great example of where we're taking things a bit too far, right?
This heat is making me look like a baseball pitcher icing his arm between innings / after a game.
The only difference being that the ace bandages are holding the ice packs underneath my armpits to try and regulate my body temp.
Spring cleaning is any time during spring, right? Not necessarily the beginning of it?
New fitness goal: Make enough progress each month that my Oma's neighbors in Boalsburg, PA question whether the guy running once a month is some kind of mutant.
My friend said she wanted to go into an old record store in Cambridge yesterday. Now I'm coding to John Coltrane.
...Not that there's anything wrong with it, just not what I'd have guessed my Sunday would entail.
Let me see if I've caught up on this... Walz cheered Tesla stocks falling, and now he is taking it back?
Is it just me or do we have a distinct lack of people in power/influence who understand how to deal with a bully?
What balderdash, lean X is the lifeblood of capitalism! For you see, it saves the company margin!
A notification from Windows suggesting that the user view their "Edge Year in Review."
I cannot begin to describe how little I would like to revisit my year in Edge.
Insanely awesome.
My friends: "How does anyone go tubing for a 2 full hours?"
Me: "OK on this run I pointed my toes inward while planking, and I actually got to the final brake pad. Next run I will point inward and switch grip the launch sticks, I think I can get over the final pad."
Sharing a gripe w/ @oddenough.art & realized halfway through what was actually bothering me.
This is an alarmingly consistent outcome to any conversation he and I have in life.
(If curious, it's that I am IMMEDIATELY suspicious of anyone who wants people to think they are smart or a leader)
Sure sure, sounds great.
What if you don't WANT to engage with people, though?
